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The suspect brought into custody following a triple homicide in a pizzeria in Laukaa, Central Finland, on Sunday was employed by the pizzeria. The 36-year-old man from Jyväskylä has no previous criminal record and the motive for his actions remains unclear, according to police.

Police on Monday revealed that the homicides were committed with a bl...

Finland has been ranked 36th in a survey carried out by Ernst & Young (EY), a multinational provider of consulting and advisory services, of the attractiveness of 40 countries as a destination for investments in renewable energy

The countries with the most attractive investment opportunities in renewable energy were China, the United States, G...

An aerial re-fuelling aircraft of the United States Air Force was sighted passing through Helsinki Airport on Monday. The aircraft has since continued its journey.

Previously, Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft have been sighted in Finland during aerial re-fuelling exercises. At present, however, no exercises in which Finnish pilots train alongside American military aircraft are under-way, a spokesperson at the Finnish Air Forces told Helsingin Sanomat.

Yrjö Hakanen (SKP), a member of the Helsinki City Board, has urged the City of Helsinki to terminate its contracts with Veolia Finland on grounds that the bus operator is part of a multinational conglomerate with operations in the Palestinian territory occupied by Israel.

Hakanen and 12 other board members demand that the city refrain from signing new and look into terminating its existing contracts with Veolia in a proposal presented to the City Board for second consideration today.

Nokia is by far the largest patent filer in Finland, finds a survey by the European Patent Office (EPO).

Alongside the network equipment manufacturer, lift and escalator manufacturer Kone and engineering firms ABB and Wärtsilä are at the forefront of innovation and experimentation in Finland, according to EPO

Spring snow melt represents a fateful point in time for the nickel mine of Talvivaara in Sotkamo.

There is simply too much water at the mine: over nine million cubic metres, enough to fill 90 Parliament Houses. The water has already all but filled the auxiliary storage areas, and more is to come due to the abundance of packing snow in Sotkamo.

Finland will not verify the income and assets of tenants in state-subsidised flats or adopt fixed-term tenancy agreements for them, a task force led by Hannele Pokka, a permanent secretary at the Ministry of the Environment, states in a proposal presented to Pia Viitanen (SDP), the Minister of Housing, on Tuesday.

The Ministry of Finance has submitted a minority report on the proposal.

Amnesty International has reiterated its concerns about the treatment of asylum seekers in Finland.

The global human rights watchdog points out in its annual report that most of the 1,500 asylum seekers and other foreigners detained in Finland in 2013 were placed in police detention facilities due to the lack of appropriate detention centres.

Court proceedings in the bribery case revolving around Jari Aarnio, a former chief of drug enforcement at the Helsinki Police Department, kicked into full gear on Tuesday as the District Court of Helsinki began hearing the arguments of defendants, witnesses and plaintiffs.

Thus far, proceedings in the case have focused on documentary evidence.

Ben Zyskowicz (NCP) has proposed that public spending be reduced by 2.6 billion euros – equivalent to roughly five per cent of the current national budget.

The seasoned Member of Parliament would generate the savings by cutting back on transfer payments made by the Social Insurance Institution of Finland (Kela), such as benefits for families with children, student final aid and basic unemployment allowances.

The attitudes of young people toward self-employment are more and more positive. Nearly half of young people in Finland consider self-employment an attractive career option, according to last year's edition of the enterprise review published by the Ministry of Employment and the Economy.

“A generational shift is taking place on an attitudinal level,” views Joonas Mikkilä, an organisation manager at the Federation of Finnish Enterprises.

Aviator Airport Services Finland, a provider of ground handling services at Helsinki Airport, will begin negotiations with its staff over a maximum of one hundred redundancies, managing director Veijo Karosvuo revealed to Iltalehti on Sunday.